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The K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Institute on Employment and Disability (YTI), part of the Outreach Division of the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, is a leading authority on employment and disability research, policy and practice. YTI conducts research and provides education and technical assistance on many aspects of disability in the workplace. YTI has been a provider of federally and state-sponsored research, training, technical assistance (TA) and organizational development on issues surrounding the workplace and disability since the mid-60’s. Approximately 50 staff and faculty are employed by the institute, providing a diverse, multi-disciplinary team with backgrounds in rehabilitation counseling, special education, rehabilitation psychology, social work, industrial and organizational psychology, labor economics, law, health education, public finance, sociology, and applied statistics.

History
The Yang Tan Institute was established in 1968 as the Rehabilitation Research Institute on small business best practices applied to sheltered workshops. Through the 1970’s and 1980’s the institute grew to include Independent Living Rehabilitation and Community Rehabilitation Programs. Expanding further and undergoing a name change in 2004 to the Employment and Disability Institute (EDI), additional integration programs on Employment Disability Nondiscrimination and Workplace Policy were developed. In April of 2015, Lisa Yang (ILR ’74 alum) and Hock E. Tan pledged $10 million to EDI, the largest gift in ILR history.

Research
EDI's research team is a multi-disciplinary group with backgrounds in rehabilitation psychology, industrial and organizational psychology, labor economics, medicine, epidemiology, program evaluation, measurement, and applied statistics. EDI conducts research on issues related to Disability and Employment, Disability Statistics Research, Program Evaluation/Research Support, Disability and Youth Research, and International Comparative Research.